Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

YAP1 subgroup supratentorial ependymoma requires TEAD and nuclear factor I-mediated transcriptional programmes for tumorigenesis

  • Kristian W. Pajtler,
  • Yiju Wei,
  • Konstantin Okonechnikov,
  • Patricia B. G. Silva,
  • Mikaella Vouri,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Sebastian Brabetz,
  • Laura Sieber,
  • Melissa Gulley,
  • Monika Mauermann,
  • Tatjana Wedig,
  • Norman Mack,
  • Yuka Imamura Kawasawa,
  • Tanvi Sharma,
  • Marc Zuckermann,
  • Felipe Andreiuolo,
  • Eric Holland,
  • Kendra Maass,
  • Huiqin Körkel-Qu,
  • Hai-Kun Liu,
  • Felix Sahm,
  • David Capper,
  • Jens Bunt,
  • Linda J. Richards,
  • David T. W. Jones,
  • Andrey Korshunov,
  • Lukas Chavez,
  • Peter Lichter,
  • Mikio Hoshino,
  • Stefan M. Pfister,
  • Marcel Kool,
  • Wei Li,
  • Daisuke Kawauchi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11884-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The molecular mechanisms driving proliferation in the pediatric brain cancer epdendymoma are poorly understood. Here the authors show that a YAP1- MAMLD1 fusion drives tumor formation in mice and show that the fusion protein can collaborate with the TEAD and NFI transcription factors.